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Last week the White House gave federal agencies guidance as they prepare their IT budget requests for 2014. OMB called for agencies to cut 10% from the average of what they spent on IT from 2010 through 2012. But they should also include plans for possible reinvestments of 5% and 10%.

Over the past seven years ago, a long list of domestic and foreign governments have adopted National Information Exchange Model protocols, such as the Justice Department’s Amber Alert, the FBI’s National Data Exchange and a European initiative to combat organized crime called EPOC.

As elected officials look to reduce federal spending, executive compensation within federal contractors has again come under scrutiny. For this year, the ceiling that the government will reimburse towards an executive’s compensation is $763,000.

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